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The Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) is a smoothbore shoulder-fired rocket launcher. [2] It is a portable assault weapon (i.e., bunker buster) and has a secondary anti-armor ability. Developed from the B-300, it was introduced to the United States Armed Forces in 1984. It has a maximum effective range of 500 metres ...
5.56×45mm NATO: The Steyr AUG is the Defence Force's standard service rifle. It entered service in 1989 and is in use with all units of the Defence Forces. [2] Operational units are issued an enhanced rifle fitted with an ACOG 4x32 optical sight starting to enter service in late 2014, known as the Model 14 or MOD 14. Rifles & Sniper rifles; FN ...
Penguin (missile) A U.S. Navy SH-60B Seahawk helicopter fires an AGM-119 missile off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in July 2002. The Penguin anti-ship missile, designated AGM-119 by the U.S. military, is a Norwegian passive IR seeker -based short-to-medium range anti-ship guided missile, designed for naval use.
43 km/h (27 mph) (Mk. 5) [4] The FV4201 Chieftain was the main battle tank (MBT) of the United Kingdom from the 1960s into 1990s. When introduced, it was among the most heavily armed MBTs of the era, mounting a 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11 gun, the equal of the much larger specialist heavy tanks then in service. It also was among the most heavily ...
Two hardpoints are present in the underside of the airframe on which the HM1 model can carry four Sting Ray torpedoes or Mk 11 Mod 3 depth charges. [citation needed] Some customers have chosen to deploy the Marte anti-ship missile on the AW101; [56] as of 2011, the Royal Navy is considering equipping their Merlin fleet with an anti-surface ...
Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system. USS Gonzalez fires her starboard-side Mk 38 Mod 2. The Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system (MGS) is a shipboard weapon system designed to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially small, fast surface craft. [1] It consists of an M242 Bushmaster chain gun mounted on a turret that can ...
A Mk 5 Mod 0 US Navy Stadimeter made in 1942 by Schick Inc. of Stamford CT. The hand held stadimeter was developed by Bradley Allen Fiske (1854–1942), an officer in the United States Navy. It was designed for gunnery purposes, but its first sea tests, conducted in 1895, showed that it was equally useful for fleet sailing and for navigation.
A French Lynx. helicopter carrying a Mk 46 torpedo. The Mark 46 torpedo is the backbone of the United States Navy 's lightweight anti-submarine warfare torpedo inventory and is the NATO standard. These aerial torpedoes are designed to attack high-performance submarines. In 1989, an improvement program for the Mod 5 to the Mod 5A and Mod 5A (S ...